Third Avenue Harwich, Tendring

32 addresses across 1 postcode (CO12), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39901863.

  • Sales: 58 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £215,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 10, E: 1, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Tendring costs £2,270 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dovercourt, about 720 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Cliff Park, is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 11 to 17 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Fronks Rd Family Surgery, about 170 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 98 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20262£215,000£196,000£234,000
20251£167,000£167,000£167,000
20242£230,000£225,000£235,000
20222£232,500£230,000£235,000
20211£190,000£190,000£190,000
20202£165,500£160,000£171,000
20192£168,250£160,000£176,500
20172£152,600£150,200£155,000
20161£160,000£160,000£160,000
20151£129,995£129,995£129,995
20142£142,500£125,000£160,000
20111£114,000£114,000£114,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 58)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Apr 20268 CO12 3SESemi-detached£234,000
27 Feb 202618 CO12 3SETerraced£196,000
30 Oct 20251 CO12 3SETerraced£167,000
27 Jun 20259 CO12 3SETerraced£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jul 20247 CO12 3SETerraced£225,000
5 Mar 202431 CO12 3SETerraced£235,000
31 Oct 202220 CO12 3SETerraced£230,000
13 Jul 20223 CO12 3SETerraced£235,000
20 Jul 202119 CO12 3SETerraced£190,000
18 Nov 202022 CO12 3SETerraced£171,000
29 Oct 202025 CO12 3SETerraced£160,000
8 Jan 202020 CO12 3SETerraced£171,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Nov 20199 CO12 3SETerraced£176,500
21 Aug 201931 CO12 3SETerraced£160,000
4 Aug 20177 CO12 3SETerraced£155,000
26 May 201722 CO12 3SETerraced£150,200
17 Nov 20169 CO12 3SETerraced£160,000
13 Feb 20157 CO12 3SETerraced£129,995
4 Aug 20148 CO12 3SESemi-detached£160,000
8 Jan 20148 CO12 3SESemi-detached£125,000
24 Feb 201122 CO12 3SETerraced£114,000
18 Nov 201023 CO12 3SETerraced£130,500
1 Apr 201022 CO12 3SETerraced£77,000
19 Dec 20073 CO12 3SETerraced£117,000
11 Jan 20071 CO12 3SETerraced£127,500
7 Dec 200623 CO12 3SETerraced£134,000
25 May 200620 CO12 3SETerraced£133,000
16 Sep 200519 CO12 3SETerraced£122,000
22 Oct 200421 CO12 3SETerraced£129,000
16 Apr 200424 CO12 3SETerraced£121,000
24 Oct 20037 CO12 3SETerraced£99,950
27 May 200317 CO12 3SETerraced£99,000
3 Apr 200323 CO12 3SETerraced£95,000
30 Jul 200224 CO12 3SETerraced£68,000
4 Jul 20025 CO12 3SETerraced£82,500
28 Jun 200212 CO12 3SESemi-detached£76,000
23 May 200220 CO12 3SETerraced£79,995
28 Jan 200212 CO12 3SESemi-detached£63,000
4 Jan 200213 CO12 3SETerraced£74,000
19 Oct 20015 CO12 3SETerraced£54,000
10 Aug 20012 CO12 3SETerraced£60,000
23 May 200119 CO12 3SETerraced£58,000
26 Apr 200016 CO12 3SETerraced£53,000
8 Oct 19997 CO12 3SETerraced£47,500
27 Aug 19995 CO12 3SETerraced£45,000
19 May 199918 CO12 3SETerraced£46,000
4 May 199924 CO12 3SETerraced£40,000
31 Mar 19994 CO12 3SETerraced£38,000
8 Mar 199919 CO12 3SETerraced£46,000
15 Feb 199919 CO12 3SETerraced£34,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from December 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (10); House, end-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (1). Built: before 1900 (6); 1930-1949 (5); 1900-1929 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Tendring in 2026-27: Band D £2,270 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,513£1,765£2,017£2,270£2,774£3,278£3,783£4,539

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (49% of about 820 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 16 October 2026 to 11 December 2026: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the carriageway (major works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 32 addresses are between 11 m and 17 m above sea level (13 m on average); the ground rises about 6 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CO12 3SE100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsDovercourt 168,000 journeys in 2024–25720 m (0.4 miles)
Harwich Town 112,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Harwich International 118,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Minesweepers Memorial Dovercourt190 m
Ferry terminalHarwich Harbour Ferry Landing1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dovercourt Station Car Park690 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer710 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN56.9 km (35 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN71.7 km (45 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fronks Rd Family Surgery170 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy630 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dovercourt Dental Surgery370 m
HospitalHarwich & District Hospital950 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationHarwich police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesEast of England Co-op Fronks Road Cashzone1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cliff Park 7.9 ha240 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 450 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.0 ha830 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dunns Meadow Allotments 8,440 m²110 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 8.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Dovercourt lighthouses and causeway, a scheduled monument, 400 m (0.2 miles) south-east. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Dovercourt lighthouses and causewayScheduled monument400 m (0.2 miles) south-east
Beacon Hill Fort: a late 19th and 20th century coastal artillery fortificationScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
The Harwich RedoubtScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bobbit's HoleLake or reservoir310 m north
Dovercourt BayBay620 m (0.4 miles) east
Beacon HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Beacon CliffCliff or slope1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
The GuardWetland1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Raycliff WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 553032

2 of the street's 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Tendring: see them on the Tendring page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
The Mayflower Primary SchoolPrimary4–11460 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–11570 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Harwich and Dovercourt High SchoolSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Harwich Community Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Spring Meadow Primary School & NurseryPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, DovercourtPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chase Lane Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
DBAK LTD CO12 3PLPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good24 Jan 2025
The Mayflower Primary School CO12 4AJSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good14 Oct 2026
Lime Court Care Centre CO12 4DEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good23 Jan 2026
East of England Co-op CO12 3PJRetailers - other330 m5 Very good25 May 2024
ASDA CO12 3HJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets340 m5 Very good21 Apr 2026
Jus Desserts CO12 3PNOther catering premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Jan 2026
Blackstars African Market CO12 3PDRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good30 Aug 2025
Harwich Festival CO12 4AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Dec 2025
The Active Wellbeing Society CO12 4AHRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Dec 2025
Roberts Cafe \& Bar Restaurant CO12 3PSHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jul 2021
Family Pizza House CO12 3AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good29 Aug 2025
Harwich Chicken Ltd USA Fried Chicken CO12 3PTTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory29 Jul 2025
Brass Monkeys Coffee House CO12 3PTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good25 Oct 2025
Renewed Performance CO12 3PARetailers - other500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Sep 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

98 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences46
Anti-social behaviour9
Public order9
Criminal damage and arson9
Other theft7
Drugs6
Vehicle crime6
Burglary2
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Maple Close (31); On or near First Avenue (12); On or near Oakland Road (11); On or near Parking Area (9); On or near St George'S Avenue (8).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 335 residents in 130 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4240
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Langley Close · Elmhurst Road · Second Avenue · First Avenue · Birch Avenue · Portland Avenue · Beach Road · Portland Crescent · Maple Close · Lee Road · St George's Avenue · Oakland Road

All the streets in CO12 and across Tendring.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.